This work is a mentor between covers for occupational therapy students entering the research phase of their educational career. The "forest and the trees" of selecting, designing and evaluating research is provided in theoretical and practical detail. Students are guided through literature review, protocol development, outcome measure selection and report writing. The vital skill of constructing reliable and valid instruements is honed in a section on developing questionnaires and surveys. Also, statistics are demystified, with step-by-step procedures for descriptive and inferential data analysis included. Keywords: Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapist, OT, Research

Product Benefits:

• Qualitative research methods and models integrated throughout the book so as to emphasize as well as compare it to quantitative research methods
• Additional examples added in easy-to-find boxes which emphasize the topic being discussed
• Frequent examples of key studies give users a model to examine when designing their own studies and comparing different research models
• Extensive list of outcome measures used by occupational therapists enables users to identify instruments for measuring variables in their studies